Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-07-01
TEXAS IN TYPE.
Clippings from State Exchanges on MATTERS
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OF Interest.
Quarantine against Guaymas is still
enforced at I'll PasO.
Corn will be plentiful and cheap this
fall in Gonzales county.
Wagon loads of fine peaches are now in
market at Wichita Falls.
The people Of Bowie are anxious to
have an artesian we'll and roller mill.
The new roller mill st Bolton is ex-
pected to commence operations July /.
1t is expected the waterworks system
at Sherman will be completed this week.
Fourteen carloads of cattle were
shipped from Henrietta on Monday last
Dublin wants an inter-countY fair for
Erath, Comanche and Hamilton counties
The average yield OF wheat on some
farms near Duck creek is forty bushels to
the acre.
The chintz bug is working destruction
in some Of the corn fields surrounding
Dawson.
In Red River county the crops are gen
orally clean; the ost crop is fine and the
corn promises well.
Big crops, rains and lots OF business
hues of the rainbow.
Stock in the building and loan associa-
ton a. Greenville will be sold at pre-
MUM on the LIST Of July.
Colorado has thus far received 1, 109, Az
pounds of wool. Many sales have been
made at from l7C to l9c.
Val Verde county proposes to build
courthouse costing not less than $780,
900, nor more than $50, 900,
Lands around Dawson are selling fast
at from $50 to S25 an ecre. These lands
have never been cultivated.
The citizens of Cooper have determined
to build a schoolhouse commensurate
with the demands of the town.
In Bell county the grain crop is gath
cred and the farmers are now busy put
ting their cotton crop IN good order.
New prairie hay is Offering on the
streets OF Mobeetie. The blade is said
to be long and fine and of excellent
quality.
It is claimed that BrownWood will out
rank any town Of its size in the state for
pretty girls and in its number of little
earthly angels.
There are 1900 acres of cotton growing
in the vincity Of Hulltown, and cotton
Gin at Albany is an imperative demand
for the fall ginning.
1t is estimated that the VIZ crop OF
Hunt county will sverar~ @oout twenty
bushels per o.. IL samples unusually
fine. ana = enVille buyers are Offering 20
cent
4 syndicate formed in Omaha, Neb,
have bought up 10000 acres of land in
Hale and Hockey counties, with the in
tention Of settling upon il good stock
farmers.
The indications now are that cotton
will make from three-fCurths to one bale
per acre in Ellis county. From one third
to one-halt is the average crop for this
section Of the country.
In San Saba county the corn crop is
very promising at this time, and with 9
few more sessousble rains q large crop
will be made. Early corn will make a
fair yield with one more rain.
On Tuesday of last week a severe
storm visited Killeen, doing considerable
damage to several buildings and COM
pletely destroying the academy, the
second story of which was used for 8
lodge room.
Four boys were out hunting in the 1
northeast part of Van Zandt county. One !
Of them, Edwin Russell, q youth ten or
twelve years of age, was killed by the {
accidental discharge from the gun of one ;
If his comrades. !
Greenyille Herald: 1t is now agreed
hat the wheat crop was not ruined the
2OTn crop is better than it has been for
7ears, and the Iruit crop is good. Still,
he croakers had al the fun they wanted {
q the spring by declaring that starvation
stared the people in the face.
A petition has been largely signed ask
ng the insurance companies to put Ter
ell back in the second-class grade. Her .
ire department and water facilities are .
aid 10 DE sufficient TO warrant the town
4 asking this OF the companies. II has
,een recommended by local agents. :
Dublin Telephone: We are informed
hat gentleman living few miles south :
vest from Dublin, in digging a well :
passed through strata Of coal which, it q
S thought, will yield handsomely The =
oal is directly on the proposed route of :
ne Fort Worth end Rio Grande Railroad. ;
r. S. Williams has five acres planted ia Q
otton on his dry Lipan farm, twelve
niles south of San Angelo, the largest b
creage of cotton that has ever been y
'lanted in the Concho country. Mr.. C
Villains thinks the yield will be as heavy
s in the Brazos country. II is now knee C
Ugh. s
Work on the compress at Greenville t
oes steadily on. Six carloads of costly i
nd powerful maChiniry have arrived, and q